Welcome

Bridges to Wellness offers education, wellness assessments, strategies for support and therapeutic protocols to facilitate optimal wellness in body, mind, emotions, and spirit. Our focus is to nurture women and children. Our Goal is to promote optimal wellness by helping to resolve dis-ease before it becomes a disease. We hope to spread the understanding that “Health” is more than “absence of disease”.

Conventional medicine’s strength is detecting and dealing with disease and emergencies. However, it is not well equipped to provide understanding or resolution for the early stages of pathogenesis; where tests indicate no disease, yet the patient experiences significant dis-ease. If no supportive measures are incorporated in the early stages of pathogenesis and the causative factors are not abated, it is only a matter of time for a major issue or disease to develop. We aim to help prevent disease and increase quality of life even if disease is already present. There are different approaches for how to help the body resolve the dis-ease before it becomes disease. The strategies are often simple. Although simple can be profound, it is not always easy.

We provide supportive education tailored to the unique needs and goals of each patient, family, school or group. We also provide wellness education developed for the specific needs of healthcare and educational professionals seeking ways to increase the efficacy of what they do for their patients and students. The better our health, the better we feel, learn, and interact with others.

In life, each individual must make their own way, at their own pace. How we experience life depends on many factors including: the extent of our health; our ability to face life’s inherent tests and challenges; the choices we make; the resulting consequences; and our willingness to learn and implement better ways.

A clear assessment of your unique situation can help you to learn and understand your strengths and how to overcome weaknesses. This can help you to make wiser choices with better consequences. Well placed support and guidance can empower you to go through life’s inherent difficulties with more grace and ease; growing from the challenges to become better rather than bitter.

Whatever challenges you face and wherever you are on the spectrum of wellness to disease, it’s not too late to get support for a better way of life. It is helpful to keep in mind that Wellness is a process not an accomplishment. It is a state of balance that requires continued effort as life continues to bring new challenges for our growth. We work as a complementary resource to your doctors’ care to improve quality of life, help mitigate illness, and support you to achieve your fullest potential. If there is a history of trauma, additional support may be needed to empower transformation of the experience(s) of trauma into wellness. Although difficulties and pain are inherent in life, suffering is not required.

Our Mission

To provide Bridges To Wellness for every woman and child who is willing to take responsibility for what is within their ability. To provide options for support for each unique situation that are more effective than a general approach for the whole population. And to do so at a price each can afford.

Our Guiding Principle

Health is more than just “absence of disease”. The experience of health is defined by a balance of our unique mixture of qualities, bodily functions, emotions, and spirit. Health also requires the clarity of our 5 senses; harmony within ourselves, with others and the environment; and the awareness that our health can never be obtained at the expense of someone else’s health nor the health of the environment.

Vision

Bridges to Wellness is envisioned to become a fully integrated seamless approach to wellness on all levels that merges the best of the conventional western medical paradigm (physical and mental) with the best that ancient wisdom has to offer.

Services

Wellness Assessments

Using dialog between client and consultant, guidance will be provided based on Ayurvedic Medicine. The guidance will be tailored based on the unique needs and goals of each client with the intention of assisting the client to shift from their current state of imbalance toward their goals and closer to their full potential. This guidance includes information and instruction on diet, lifestyle, breathing practices, and exercises as appropriate, for incorporation into the client’s daily life for a specified period of time. Wellness protocols might also be recommended to facilitate the process.

Wellness Protocols

Prior to any protocols, a recent wellness assessment must be completed to ensure the appropriate protocols and conditions are defined for your current situation. There are a range of protocols that might be beneficial for the particular situation. These include onsite (conducted by trained and licensed professionals in the clinic) and home based (self-administered, with professional guidance) protocols. Onsite protocols include: Marma massage therapy, guided movements, breathing exercises, lymphatic drainage, and location specific support for issues related to the back, eyes, limbs, joints, torso, digestion. Home based protocols include: all of the onsite protocols that can be taught directly to the individual or family member or helper, and some simple food as medicine protocols.

Education

Wellness education tailored to the specific needs and goals of each client, family, school or group, or health professional. Examples of general topics: Increasing the Effectiveness of Whatever You Are Doing, Healthy Digestion, Regaining Wellness, Stress Management, Improving Communications, Family or Group Agreements - Clarifying Roles and Responsibilities within Reality

Conscious Pregnancy and Postpartum

Wellness education tailored to the specific needs of the individual, couple, family or group, to prepare for the best experience and outcome for conscious conception (natural and assisted), pregnancy, delivery, and postpartum.